It Takes Al Jazeera to Report on BP Oil Spill Sickness

It Takes Al Jazeera to Report on BP Oil Spill Sickness

By: David Dayen Friday March 11, 2011 8:40 am

I’ve heard the American media described accurately at a bunch of 7 year-olds at a youth soccer game. There’s nothing strategic about the game; all the kids chase the soccer ball in a pack. I thought of that when I read a story about enduring sickness in the Gulf of Mexico. It didn’t come from ABC, or NBC, or CBS, or Fox News, or CNN, or any local outlet. It came from Al Jazeera.

“I have critically high levels of chemicals in my body,” 33-year-old Steven Aguinaga of Hazlehurst, Mississippi told Al Jazeera. “Yesterday I went to see another doctor to get my blood test results and the nurse said she didn’t know how I even got there.”

Aguinaga and his close friend Merrick Vallian went swimming at Fort Walton Beach, Florida, in July 2010.

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http://news.firedoglake.com/2011/03/11/it-takes-al-jazeera-to-report-on-bp-oil-spill-sickness/


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Lots going on -- just adding this for the record on BP/Gulf --

The oil is all gone, all the people got the money that was due, all is well

This administration is not working for the people.......

And re administration --